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Source: Med-e-News
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Media advisory: Who Pays for Canada? Taxes and Fairness
Are Canadians fair or is that just a story we tell ourselves? Can we reason our way to lessened inequality or are violent cataclysms the only levelling power, as Thomas Piketty and Walter Schiedel argue? How do we maintain a sense and an approximation of fairness in our globalizing and polarizing world? Certainly there can be no fairness without tax fairness: tax policy is where we negotiate the relationship between wealth and poverty.
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Najafabadi, Trenholm named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows
Canadian Genomics Cloud launched to provide widespread access to genomics infrastructure for Canada
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